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H LIORET. ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

Patented Feb. 17,1891.

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ADVERTISING- APPARATUS.

No. 446,457. Patented Feb. 17,1891

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HENRI LIORET, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO OSSIIEIMER BROTHERS, OF

' SAME PLACE.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,457, dated February 17, 1891.

Application filed September 4, 1890. Serial No. 863,934. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRI LIORET, a citizen of France, and a residentof Paris, France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in XdvertisingAp paratus, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

The present invention has reference to an advertising device or apparatus for displaying and illustrating the use of a cuff-button.

It comprises two figures representing hands, with a portion of the arms upon a suitable ease or support, one of the hands being stationary and holding a cult, while the other is actuated mechanically to go through the motions of inserting a cuff-button in the buttonhole of the cuif held by the otherhand, securing it in place, and then withdrawing it, these motions being imparted by a suitable prime motor, such as a springmotor, and being rel peated indefinitely.

The invention is herein illustrated in connection with particular kind of cuff-button in which the fastening device is made effective to stay the button in the hole by giving the former a quarter-turn after inserting it;

but with slight modification the invention could be employed in connection with other buttons such, for example, as those whose fastening or holding devices are thrown out by compressing the button.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure I is an elevation, the side of the case containing the operating mechanism being removed. Fig. II

5 is a top view of the parts Within the case; and Fig. III is an elevation, partlyin section, showing the hands in a position different from Fig. I.

On the top of the box or case A are placed 0 the hands 13 C. The former is stationary and serves merely to hold the cuff b in position for the insertion of the button 0, held by the hand 0, to which the necessary motions for displaying the action of the button are im- 5 parted by the mechanism within case A.

Hand C is mounted on a sleeve d, which is loose on a rod D, projecting upwardly from the bottom of the case, so that the hand is free to turn as well as to move vertically.

The vertical motion introduces the shank of the button 0 into the button-hole of cuff Z),

while the turning of the hand a quarter-rm'olution throws the detent or holding-pin e of the button across the button-hole. The reversal of these motions withdraws the button.

For operating the device an ordinary springmotor E may be used. Upon the arbor f is mounted a cam plate or disk F, having deep angular notches or indentations forming a series of radiating arms 2. The construction is similar to that of a jogging-cam, but the motion in this case is slow.

The bottom of sleeve (Z, supporting the hand 0, rests upon the forked end of a lever G, which is pivoted at g. The other end of this lever carries a small friction-roller 71, which is in contact with the edge of the cam-plate F. In the posit-ion of theparts shownin Fig.

I the friction-roller is in one of the indentations of the cam-plate; but as the latter ro- 7o tates in the direction of the arrow the edge of the arm 2 gradually depresses the roller, thereby raising the hand and causing the shank of the button held thereby to enter the button-hole. hen this projection or arm 2 passes the roller 7L, the weight of the hand returns the lever to its first position. This upand-down motion is repeated four times in each rotation of arbor f, which turns slowly.

Of course the number of the arms 2 may be So varied.

To the upper part of sleeved, just beneath the hand, is connected a crank-arm i, to which is attached a long crank-pin 7c, the latter passing through a slot in the end of a lever 5 K, which is pivoted at m. By oscillating this lever back and forth between the stops 3 4: the hand O is turned on the rod D. This motion is given to the lever by the cams 5, which project from the ends of the arms 2 of cam F. These cams 5 make contact successively with the end of lever K, swinging it out against the tension of spring 12, which returns it after the cams pass.

For the purpose of starting and stopping the device a rod n is provided in such position that when pushed in by pressure against the head 0 its inner end comes into the path of the fan 13 of the motor and arrests the movement.

The cams 2 and 5, which operate the levers G and K, respectively, are so placed relatively IOO to each other that the axial. motion or oscillation of the hand both back and forth occurs during the time that the hand 0 is held in its highest position by the action of one of the arms 2 upon the roller it.

The operation of the device will now be readily understood. Assuming the parts to be as shown in Fig. I, the rotation of cam F causes the hand to rise slowly until the roller 7b is held in its lowest position by the outeredge of arm 2. The shank of button 0 is thus introduced into the button-hole of cuff 1). Soon after the upward motion of the hand ceases the inclined edge of cam 5 on the arm next preceding that which now holds down the roller h begins to act upon lever K, causing the hand and button to swing slowly around until the holding device of the button is crosswise of the button-hole, as shown in Fig. III. The positions of the exposed parts remain unchanged until the cam 5 releases lever G, when the hand swings back under the action of spring 11 and the button is in position for withdrawal, which now takes place by the entrance of roller it into one of the spaces between arms 2.

The particular mechanical devices herein shown do not constitute an essential part of the invention, as other equivalent devices may be substituted to accomplish the same end.

The device can be arranged to operate in connection with any ordinaryautomatic vend ing-machine, so as upon deposit of a proper coin to deliver a pair of the buttons in a manner well understood, while at the same time illustrating for the benefit of purchasers the method of using them.

Objection has been raised to the detached hands having life'like motions, because of the ghastly appearance of the same, which disagreeably affects some people, and to obviate this I have made some of the button-exhibiting devices in the shape of manikins or figures of boys, whose hands are actuated by the mechanism hereinabove described, but which is located either in the pedestal or in some convenient part of the body. To give attraction to the figure, I have by known means made its head move about, so as to shake up or down, or from side to side, or in any other way to imitate the usual motion of the head. It is obvious that other fancy contrivances may be applied to attract attention or amuse the public.

While the mechanism shown is specially adapted for the exhibition of a particular kind of b utton, which is inserted by a forward motion and then by a quarter-rot-ation, it may be so modified as to exhibit the insertion of any other kind of buttonf For instance, when the plate is split from the shank to the circumference and twisted so as to present a helical conformation, then the movement to the hand which inserts the button is that of an advance combined with a rotation. Both hands may participate in the rotation, but in opposite directions.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, to secure by Letters Patent, is

and desire 1. A device for advertising cuff-buttons,

comprising, in combination, a hand or support holding a cuff, a second hand or support holding a button in line with the button-hole of the cuff, said hand being movable in the direction of said button-hole and also m0v.- able in such manner as to secure the button therein, and mechanism, substantially as indicated, for imparting to said hand the described motions, as set forth.

2. In an advertising apparatus of the character specified, the combination, with a support in the form of a hand holding a cult, of another hand holding a. button and loosely mounted on a rod, a prime motor, and connections, such as cams and levers, between the motor and movable hand for imparting thereto the motions necessary to effect the insertionof the button into and its withdrawal from the button-hole of the cuff, substantially as described.

The combination of ahand holding a cuff-button and loosely mounted on its support,so as to be capable of reciprocating longitudinally and also of oscillating axially, two levers connected with said hand and adapted, respectively, to reciprocate and to oscillate the same, and a series of cams acting successively upon said levers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribin g witnesses.

HENRI LIORET.

Witnesses:

GEORGE E. OSCHEIMER, R. J. PRESTON.

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It is hereby certified that the name of the assignees in Letters Patent N 0. 446,457,

granted February 17, 1891, upon the application of Henri Lioret, of Paris, France, for

an improvement in Advertising Apparatus, was erroneously written and printed Oesheimer Brothers; that said name should have been Written and printed Ostheimer Brothers, and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 3d day of March, A. D. 1891.

[SEAL] CYRUS BUSSEY,

Assistant Secretary ofthe Interior.

C ountersigned 0. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner" of Patents. 

